Posted By:
Richard Masson"Doug Allen's admission that Mastro engaged in card doctoring in an effort garner higher grades"
He admitted to laying down flipped corners, erasing light pencil marks and removing the occasional surface wrinkle. The vast majority of collectors and dealers do it. Any dealer that comes on here and swears he doesn't do these things is lying. Period. Full Stop. Getting people to sign some oath of compliance will never change these practices.
Focus on trying to identify the real theives- the true doctors who trim, bleach, soak and stretch and rebuild corners. Doug's admission is not in any way newsworthy to anyone who has been paying attention over the last twenty years; he is being unfairly blasted for simply being honest.